Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!decwrl!csus.edu!ucdavis!uop!quack!mrapple From: mrapple@quack.sac.ca.us (Nick Sayer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Apple's stupid "Backup ][" backup program Summary: The thing refuses to restore. "time stamp mismatch" Message-ID: Date: 7 Oct 90 21:40:45 GMT Organization: The Duck Pond, Stockton, CA Lines: 35 I posted this a while ago, but got no response. So here it is again. On the Apple ][ SCSI utilities, Apple included what I thought was a nice disk backup program. Well, this program has screwed me but good. I backed up my HD faithfully every other day. When the hard disk died, I was not concerned. I got a new drive, and went to restore, but got "date/time stamp" errors. I want to find the author of this program and kill him in a very painful and slow manner. :-). I have spent four hours paging through this programs code and it is the ugliest and most vile machine code I've ever seen. I have spent a similar amount of time paging through the disks themselves for hints of this date/time stamp. If the author sees this: Why, why, oh WHY did you not include the ability to proceed IN SPITE of errors? Like "time/date stamps don't match. Continue anyway?" Doesn't that make sense? Watch your back, buddy! If anyone else has a solution, I'd like to hear it. I got as far as some of the stuff from $673E-$6795. I'm just getting sick of the whole thing. I need to know either how to patch out the time/date check, or fix the time/date on the backup disks. Anyone else know of a hard disk backup program that WORKS? -- Nick Sayer | "Disclaimer? I don't think so! mrapple@quack.sac.ca.us | Homey don't play dat." N6QQQ [44.2.1.17] | 209-952-5347 (Telebit) | -- Homey the Clown